Biography:
"Let’s Get On with The Illusion," sings Barton Carroll on his fourth album, Together You and I on Skybucket Records, out January 19, 2009. It’s a song about love – but a shoulder-shrug type of love that resigns itself to "I guess this is good enough." A cynical narrative runs through the album for sure, but Carroll’s sardonic wit is coupled with lightly shuffling horns, making for happy sounding songs instead of a somber ones. His tone and sleight-of-hand songwriting skill gained him critical acclaim for his previous release
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Bm
The time has come, Pauline
Dsus2
The night will fall and take its wings
G D
A cosmic silence long overdue
Bm
Even pitch and stone atomize
Dsus2
So don't feign surprise
G D
You had every day of your life didn't you?
Bm
The angels called on me
Dsus2
A job o'work was sent my way
G
A tangle they could not unwind
Bm
Turns out every holy page
Dsus2
And every parson's rage
G D
Were all wrong. we've been friends throughout time
Em
And though we rarely correspond
G
You see, my style is frowned upon
Bm A G
I'm a loner and a soldier and a thug
Em
I get it done
D C D
Bm Dsus2
You were so dimly thinking as you were so grimly sinking
G D
Motherhood would save your life
Bm Dsus2
Now it comes down to an act and the miserable fact
G D
Don't you know loneliness is out of style
Em
And the South closed in on you
G
And made you the proof
Bm A G
Of a soul twisted by faith
Em
Misery abounds
D C D
G Em G Bm
For salvation was in little things you were too remiss to know
G D
As you fill the air with tremolo drone
G Em
When you sow that much mendacity
G Bm
They're gonna ring my bell below
G
Gonna bring me up to speed
A G
I'll drag you wretched like an animal, moanin' like a crone
Em D Dsus2 D
You better hope and pray they never come home
[Solo]
Bm Dsus2 G D X2
Bm
You won't know what to do
Dsus2
I'll break the family out of you
G D
I promise I will not back down
Bm
Spinning children aching from the path
Dsus2
Well, now you've met your match
G D
Victim maker, heart breaker, ruiner of lives
Em G
And though every waking day you vamp a heavenward gaze
Bm A G
In your dreams you touch the Maestro's face
Em
Step along
D C D
The time has come, Pauline
Dsus2
The night will fall and take its wings
G D
A cosmic silence long overdue
Bm
Even pitch and stone atomize
Dsus2
So don't feign surprise
G D
You had every day of your life didn't you?
Bm
The angels called on me
Dsus2
A job o'work was sent my way
G
A tangle they could not unwind
Bm
Turns out every holy page
Dsus2
And every parson's rage
G D
Were all wrong. we've been friends throughout time
Em
And though we rarely correspond
G
You see, my style is frowned upon
Bm A G
I'm a loner and a soldier and a thug
Em
I get it done
D C D
Bm Dsus2
You were so dimly thinking as you were so grimly sinking
G D
Motherhood would save your life
Bm Dsus2
Now it comes down to an act and the miserable fact
G D
Don't you know loneliness is out of style
Em
And the South closed in on you
G
And made you the proof
Bm A G
Of a soul twisted by faith
Em
Misery abounds
D C D
G Em G Bm
For salvation was in little things you were too remiss to know
G D
As you fill the air with tremolo drone
G Em
When you sow that much mendacity
G Bm
They're gonna ring my bell below
G
Gonna bring me up to speed
A G
I'll drag you wretched like an animal, moanin' like a crone
Em D Dsus2 D
You better hope and pray they never come home
[Solo]
Bm Dsus2 G D X2
Bm
You won't know what to do
Dsus2
I'll break the family out of you
G D
I promise I will not back down
Bm
Spinning children aching from the path
Dsus2
Well, now you've met your match
G D
Victim maker, heart breaker, ruiner of lives
Em G
And though every waking day you vamp a heavenward gaze
Bm A G
In your dreams you touch the Maestro's face
Em
Step along
D C D
Bas Bons
Basca
Baschi
Base Cumbiera
Base Jam
Basketball Short (...)
Basko Believes
Bass Drum Of Dea (...)
Bass Modulators
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